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from charity to consuming - way to go, Canada

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2002.12.26

Today I learned that the name Boxing Day comes from the old habit of gathering things for charity into a box and delivering it on this day after Xmas. Today we waste the day shopping.

rand()m quote

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

—George Bernard Shaw